Too many in Labour congratulate themselves for rescuing the country from Liz Truss, forgetting that Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt did most of the work. No wonder backbenchers are angry about a policy platform that’s barely distinct form their Tory predecessors, says Will Cooling

There’s no shortage of things that have gone wrong with the Labour Party during its first year back in government, but if there’s one reason to fear they won’t resolve any of them it’s the attitude of Downing Street itself. There is an unthinking and undeserved arrogance to an operation that is consistently polling half what it did a year – whether its unnamed sources lashing out at their own backbenchers for being ungrateful, egotistical or financially illiterate, or ministers threatening to punish Labour MPs for stopping the planned welfare cuts by not ending the two-child cap on universal credit as previously teased.

One explanation for this attitude is that the government is overestimating how boldly it has broken from its predecessor. Too many are........

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